This song needs praise
“Between the Bars” by Madeleine Peyroux is one of my favourite songs ever. You can listen to it here on last.fm.
In just the first 30 seconds (not in the last.fm preview) :
- Beautiful brush drums slowly panting away – it is as if the whole song stops during the pauses in-between the brush drum hits.
- The gong sound swings from left to right and the sound and tone has a beautiful booming quality.
- You can hear the strings of the bass / double bass guitar in the right channel.
- The apparent slowing down of the double bass and hence the softening and deepening of the sound of the bass.
Absolutely fantastic ! Far few songs come close to this beauty for me.
Breakfast Spaceship
I dislike breakfasts with a high sugar content – it makes me want to keep on eating all day – the principle of diminishing returns also applies. Once you have eaten something sugary and fatty it is difficult to be satisfied with anything less.
This morning I made myself a low GI but nevertheless nice tasting gourmet breakfast. It is really easy as you’ll see :
Ingredients
- Hausbrot Rye bread (preferably not factory sliced)
- Tin Asparagus
- Chunky ricotta cheese
- Olive Oil
- Lemon Juice
- Pepper
Method
- Toast the rye bread
- Spread a generous portion of ricotta onto the rye toast
- lay a few pieces of asparagus on top of the ricotta
- mix a teaspoon of olive oil with a dash of lemon juice
- grind a hint of pepper over the top
Now make yourself a coffee and enjoy !
Current Projects
I am currently working on 2 mini projects 1) Installing and using Vmware VIMA to administrate my esxi server. 2) Setting up Splunk to Splunk logging over HTTPS (with a certificate obtained from a commercial CA).
I have discovered two things 1) There is a driver for the i-key 3000 for Vista/32 2) Goldkey Hardware Encryption Token (www.goldkeytoken.com).
Mac tidbits
It is a pity you run mac mail as a standalone RSS reader. I like the fact that the mail icon notifies you if there is a new unread item (rss or email). Why not use mail for your email you ask ?
Google apps web front end is better than mail. IMHO. No contact syncing (without a command line hack). In my linux days (not that I have abandoned linux, it is still my favorite server o/s) I would have been happy to dive into the console and edit files in /etc but since using ubuntu and OSX I have adopted a “your o/s is only as good as the shipped defaults” attitude and generally only like to use a feature if it is properly supported by the vendor.
I have tried other news readers but just don’t trust them with my authenticated RSS feeds. Their built-on browsers also make me nervous as I believe web browsers are the no. 1 vector for nastyware.
I bought a Airport extreme last week. It it nice having a 130mbps wireless connection and being able to use a USB HDD connected via the airport as a Time machine backup.
One Qualm I have is that if the device is in “Bridge Mode” (in conjunction with another firewall) it does not bridge the ethernet ports to the wireless interface and hence the switch is a separate physical network from the WAN port.
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